New Jersey · Nonprofit
BE READY INC
BE READY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being GREAT SCHOOLS FOR ALL INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Be Ready Inc does
Mission
Be ready invests in black women to prepare them to be civically engaged, run for office, win seats of power, disrupt inequitable systems, and impact policies affecting black and brown communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
National storytelling & civic engagement:project ready, in partnership with be ready, supported the national film tour for dear america, a letter from black women, hosting screenings and discussions across multiple cities to elevate civic awareness and participation. The initiative was further amplified through national media, including an iheartradio podcast feature with ceo shennell mccloud.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $450k to $202k (−55%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of BE READY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Shennell Mccloud
Executive director
Board chair
Jazz Clayton-Hunt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BE READY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BE READY INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BE READY INC is better cushioned than half of the 695 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BE READY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Project Ready a Nj Nonprofit Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE READY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BE READY INC?
- BE READY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being GREAT SCHOOLS FOR ALL INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BE READY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500,000 in grants to BE READY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BE READY INC?
- GREAT SCHOOLS FOR ALL INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BE READY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing